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Always break down hard drives. I bought these for .30¢ a pound and turned around a $138.83 profit in 2.5 hours. $55.53 was my hourly rate. Not as good as Servers or Desktop CD Drives but still very nice. For those that get these often and are able to ship to boardsort.com or similar websites I highly recommend taking off the boards. The last picture is a unique board that was within all the others. I’ve never seen Gold Tab BGA’s on a hard drive board before and I think it’s pretty neat.

I make a non-ferrous run every 1-3 months that usually adds up to $500-$900. Steel runs I do almost weekly. I was curious if people bring it in as they get it or stockpile up a bunch of random categories scrap and bring it all in at once.

Traveling to Flint, Michigan. Me and my friend plan on leaving at 12pm and doing it all in one go. We don’t plan on stopping to look at anything I’m only posting to see if there are any detours we should take to avoid highly congested areas or just cities that are unpleasant to drive through.

This is a follow up to my previous post on laptop CD drives. Laptop CD drives are not worth it however desktop drives certainly are. I broke down 18lbs of drives in 8 minutes 35 seconds for a total profit of $9.74. If I were to turn these in as is to my local scrap yard I’d get $1.80 at a rate of .10¢ per pound. Once broken down there was 1.074lbs of CD ROM Boards at a rate of $8 per pound. The rest was shred at a rate of 0.0675¢ per pound. My hourly rate ended up being $68.75. Definitely worth it over the $6 an hour you get breaking down laptop drives.

1113lbs of servers fully disassembled in 12 hours. I spent $256 and drove an hour away for them. 106.25lbs of Metal Multi Socket Server Motherboards alone. They were missing all of their SSD and most of their ram. Everything totaled up subtracting the initial cost and gas is $765.91 for an hourly rate of $63.83. I have not included shipping cost as that is to be determined. Shipping these very large boards will be a challenge but I have done it in the past. All you need is a really big box and lots of monofilament tape.

Start weight was 12.568lbs. I have a scrap yard that pays .10¢ per pound for these. I broke them down to the CD ROM Board and sheet aluminum. 0.43lbs of Boards at a rate of $8 per pound on board sort and 3.18lbs of sheet aluminum at a rate of .60¢ per pound at my local yard. The remaining material went into shred at 0.0775¢ per pound at my local yard. It took me 1 hour and 9 minutes to break everything down and I made $6.04. Definitely not worth it if you’re in it for the money. CD drives from desktops on the other hand take half as much time to disassemble and the board is so much bigger and in some cases the same size as the drive itself. I also found Creed so plus however much 1 Creed is worth.

This is the most legible it’s ever been

I’ve found that the single stack ARC‘s are pretty easy to tear down if you have a straight edge and a sharp razor. However I’m still not sure if it’s actually worth it or not. Would I gain money, lose money, or break even if I stripped these down to the copper?

I drink monsters regularly so this is actually very convenient for me for shipping the board sort as I have many of these on hand. Any standard desktop ram can fit five across. This box is as solid as a brick. Of course I’m not just going to ship it like this because of how thin the box is but it’s going to go into another much thicker box that’s gonna be filled with a bunch of gold fingered cards along with another box of ram identical to this. Just thought I’d share this little bit of information for those shipping any desktop ram to board sort.